[Left margin: Lieut John Knight 2^nd Reg^t Chester Town, Maryland] Accountants Office July 5^th 1798 Sir You will receive from John Kilby Esq. Supervisor Baltimore the sum of two hundred Dollars, for which you will be pleased to give him the necessary receipts holding yourself accountable being for the Recruiting service— Sam^d W. Simmons Acct^t [Left margin: The Sec^y of War] Accountants Office July 5^th 1798. Sir As the compensation to be allowed to M^r Gate agent for paying the Militia of Maryland in 1794 is not fixed upon by law and his instructions not being sufficiently explanatory on that head I shall not be able to close his accounts until you may be pleased to decide thereon— His accounts have been examined & if you should deem it necessary in order to fix the quantum of compensation to be allowed him, I will transmit the several abstracts &c exhibiting the amount of his payments to the Militia aforesaid, for your inspection— Sam^d W. Simmons Acct^t [Left margin: Ensign J. Richmond New Brunswick—N.J.] Accountants Office July 7^th 1798. Sir I have received your letter enclosing one for Cap^t M^cCleary which I have had delivered to him— Sam^d W Simmons